North America Distribution

Facts About

Sharp-lobed hepatica is an attractive wildflower of the deciduous forest understory. It differs from the closely-related blunt-lobed hepatica (Anemone americana) in having more acutely pointed leaf lobes. Sharp-lobed hepatica roots were used by the Chippewa as a charm on traps for mammals, and the Iroquois used it in a compound given to forest runners to relieve shortness of breath.

Habitat

Forests

Characteristics

Habitat

terrestrial

New England state

Connecticut

Maine

Massachusetts

New Hampshire

Vermont

Flower petal color

NA

Leaf type

the leaves are simple (i.e., lobed or unlobed but not separated into leaflets)

Leaf arrangement

basal: the leaves are growing only at the base of the plant

Leaf blade edges

the edge of the leaf blade has lobes, or it has both teeth and lobes

Flower symmetry

there are two or more ways to evenly divide the flower (the flower is radially symmetrical)

Native to North America?

Sometimes Confused With

leaf blades with round- to blunt-tipped lobes that are separated by sinuses that extend at most to the middle of the leaf blade (vs. A. acutiloba, with leaf blades with pointed lobes that are separated by sinuses that extend beyond the middle of the leaf blade).